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Game Shows based on playing cards
parliboy:
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--- Quote from: wdm1219inpenna on December 14, 2024, 09:34:09 AM ---Super Pay Cards (Syndicated, 1981-82). I know this version was taped in Canada but I'm not certain if the show aired at all in the United States during its initial run.
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It aired in a handful of U.S. markets. Richmond, Va. was one and I believe NYC was another…WOR I wanna say.
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Also aired on 39 Houston during that time, IIRC
Matt Ottinger:
So essentially, there have been four.
In a genre that goes back to the earliest days of television, isn't that odd?
JasonA1:
Very interesting indeed. I think that applies to many forms of gambling. Dice are ubiquitous in board games, but are similarly under-represented in game shows. There's High Rollers and Yahtzee, and dice that played a comparatively smaller role on Monopoly, Big Showdown and Dealer's Choice. Even if you count applications like Dice Game on TPIR, I'm in Matt's camp of "essentially..." there are few.
I doubt producers all stood around and said "we need to keep gambling to a minimum!" But I imagine there's an aversion to it because there's less control over the payouts and/or the house edge in the base games makes their use as TV games less compelling.
-Jason
TLEberle:
Jack Barry would not have been there since two of his most in famous properties are fairly well linked to gambling.
A show like High Rollers allows Bob and Merrill to have a rough idea of how often they’ll will give away $10,000 or the car, but they can’t change that except with the insurance markers. Card Sharks allows a certain number of changes, but the willingness of the contestant to have a punt drives the payoffs.
rjaguar3:
In practice most card games that are not gambling games are difficult to impossible to adapt for TV game shows because hidden information (the cards a player is holding) is essential to meaningfully playing the game, and it's difficult to convey this to a TV audience. So this basically leaves gambling-style games.
/Wonder if Championship Bridge with Charles Goren would count for our list.
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